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Neuronal Tracing for Connectomic Studies

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Reconstruction of the complete wiring diagram, or connectome, of a neural circuit provides an alternative approach to conventional circuit analysis. One major obstacle of connectomics lies in segmenting and tracing neuronal processes from the vast number of images obtained with optical or electron microscopy. Here I review recent progress in automated tracing algorithms for connectomic reconstruction with fluorescence and electron microscopy, and discuss the challenges to image analysis posed by novel optical imaging techniques.

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The author thanks Prof. Mark Schnitzer for support of this work; Prof. Giorgio Ascoli, Prof. Jeff W. Lichtman, Prof. Yi Zuo, and the two anonymous reviewers for discussions and comments on this manuscript.

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Lu, J. Neuronal Tracing for Connectomic Studies. Neuroinform 9, 159–166 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12021-011-9101-6

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